Breaking News, October 18 | Highlights

Rajasthan govt to pay Rs 476 crore gratuity to road transport employees

The consultations, which were led by the two Foreign Ministries, involved exchanges on cooperation in the maritime domain, Indo-Pacific and regional/ multilateral cooperation: Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)

Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel issues directions for the removal of Narayanpur SP Uday Kiran from his post.

Delhi: BJP national president JP Nadda chairs a meeting of the party's national general secretaries.

Mahant Narendra Giri death case | CBI had appealed for polygraph test citing hiding of facts by accused in custody. But it can be done only with accused's consent so CJM spoke with them via VC & asked if they want it, they refused: Sudhir Srivastava, lawyer of accused Anand Giri

Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Accused Sumit Jaiswal, Shishupal, Nandan Singh Bisht and Satya Prakash Tripathi arrested by Lahimpur Kheri Police and SWAT team of Crime Branch

Reserve Bank of India imposes Rs 1 crore penalty on State Bank of India

Union Cabinet meeting on Thursday at 11: 30 and Union Council of ministers meeting  on same day at  3.45PM.

Another issue on which we've been working on is how to travel in Covid era. In principle, we've agreed on, mutual recognition of our vaccine certification process. While we're working that out in interim, Israel would allow people with Covishield vaccines to travel to Israel: EAM

I'm also very happy at the inauguration of the Women and STEM mini conference on November 24, where women scientists from both sides participate. I think that's again a very rich, very representative of the direction in which our relationship has moved: EAM Dr S Jaishankar

Colin Powell, a former US secretary of state and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman died of complications from #COVID19 today at the age of 84: Reuters

Fatima Banoo, a resident of Choskore village, becomes first person in Kargil to receive 'Ladakh resident' certificate

Taliban say Afghan girls will return to secondary schools soon

Russia's foreign minister says the country is suspending its mission to NATO

Uttarakhand: Gangotri covered in a sheet of snow as the region receives fresh snowfall today, temperature drops.

It has come to the notice of CBSE that a fake date sheet is being circulated on social media for the forthcoming term 1 exams in Nov 2021, to confuse students of class X & XII. It is clarified that the board has not released any official notification in this regard till now: CBSE

The blowback that we're seeing in J&K should have been anticipated after the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Manish Tewari

China’s Communist Party all set to hold key meet next month ahead of 2022 leadership change

Ranjit Singh murder case | Special CBI court in Panchkula awards life imprisonment to all the accused, including Dera Sacha Sauda's Gurmeet Ram Rahim and four others. A fine of Rs 31 Lakhs levied on Ram Rahim and Rs 50,000 on the remaining accused.

At present, the prices of fertilizers have increased a lot in the international market & we have to import many kinds of fertilizer. But in farmers' interest, PM Modi decided to increase the subsidy instead of MRP. The subsidy in Urea is increased from Rs 1500 to 2000 per bag, DAP from Rs 1200 to 1650, NPK from Rs 900 to 1015, SSP from Rs 315 to 375. In total, in the Rabi season, PM has given Rs 28,000 cr to farmers in the form of subsidized fertilizer: Union Min Mansukh Mandaviya

PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate Kushinagar International Airport in Uttar Pradesh on October 20, 2021

Punjab Cabinet opposes Centre's decision to extend BSF jurisdiction

Russia's total number of coronavirus infections has topped 8 million, more than 5 per cent of the population, and the daily infection toll hit a new record.

BJP backed rebel SP candidate Nitin Agarwal elected as deputy speaker of UP assembly

Army chief Gen MM Naravane left today for a 2-day trip to Jammu region to review the overall security situation in the region. He will also visit forward areas near the Line of Control and would be briefed by top officials on ground on the ongoing operations there: Army officials

Money laundering case: Actor Jacqueline Fernandez skips ED summons for 4th time

Rupee slips 9 paise to end at 75.35 (provisional) against the US dollar

Flood alert sounded to people living near River Palar in Tamil Nadu

Heavy rainfall disrupted normal life in some districts of western Uttar Pradesh on Monday, inundating several areas, and led to the cancellation of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's rally in Budhana town.

Districts like Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Baghpat and Meerut have received heavy downpour since Sunday morning. This has led to waterlogging and electricity supply disruption is several parts of these districts.

Yadav was supposed to address a Kashyap community rally in Budhana, but it had to be cancelled as the venue is submerged in rainwater, the Samajwadi Party's Muzaffarnagar unit president, Parmod Kumar Tyagi, said. 

Fire broke out in a seminar room on the ground floor of the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital here in the early hours of Monday but no casualty was reported, Delhi Fire Service officials said.

Charging equipment, batteries, mattress and other items in the seminar room located in the emergency ward on the hospital's ground floor caught fire, said Atul Garg, the director of Delhi Fire Service.

"We got a call about the fire in the emergency ward of LNJP hospital around 12.20 am. Six fire tender rushed to the spot," he said, adding the cause of the blaze is being ascertained.

A couple was run over by a speeding Uttar Pradesh roadways bus in the Ramgarh area on Sunday evening, police said. Superintendent of Police (city) Mukesh Kumar Mishra said the deceased have been identified as Vakeel (55) and his wife Nasreen (50). They were going to a market to buy some articles for the engagement ceremony of their son. As soon as they stepped out from the auto-rickshaw, a bus coming from the Hathras depot ran over them on national highway-2, he said.

Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel on Sunday said women are playing a vital role to curb the dowry system and other such regressive tradition prevailing in society for a long time. Women empowerment will become successful when they will concentrate on the education of their children, he said.

Patel distributed kits to 181 anganwadi centres at a private institute at Mohan Nagar. She gave out Rs 2.83 crore worth of cheques to 11,000 members of self help groups (SHGs). During her visit to the district jail, the Governor provided 3 LED lights and five computers for the barracks of women inmates for skill development, an official said.